Culinary from Rare Illustrated Books

London: Warren Editions, 1972. Limited Edition. GIli, Phillida. The mutual obligations of hospitality, 'For each person, find a silvery-brown Manx kipper. This is not always easy but is always worth it. Grill these gently. For extra-greedy friends, add a lump of unsalted butter to melt slowly over each kipper...' followed by recipes for each meal of the day divided… Read more about this item

United States of America: International Cocktail, Wine and Spirits Digest, Inc, 1948. As 'Maitre de Bar' at New York's Hotel Pierre in the 1940s, Oscar Haimo poured drinks for the best known celebrities of his time. Oscar Haimo self-published his 'Cocktail and Wine Digest'- in the drinks trade, it was known as the 'barman's bible'. Haimo wrote from his private… Read more about this item

Montreal: General Steel Wares Limited, 1929. Near fine. Covers everything from damask table cloths to renovating old woodwork. Octavo, 38 pages, 3 full page colour plates + 5 full page black & white plates + many additional illustrations throughout, mild edgewear to cover otherwise near fine.

Japan: Yokohama Seishi Bunsha, 1895. First Edition. Rare English-language guide to Japanese domestic wares, with 76 fully-illustrated items. Its publication came at a time when Japan was experiencing a dramatic shift from the conservative, isolationist policies of the sh gun-dominated Edo period to the rapid and widespread drive to modernise and engage with the rest of the world that… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Mutual Provedoring Co. Ltd, 1892. First Edition. Born in Lambeth, cookery writer Harriet Frances Wicken (1847 - 1937) emigrated from England to Australia in 1886. Having studied at the National Training School for Cookery in South Kensington in London shortly after it opened and acquiring a diploma, Harriet Wicken published her first book, the 'Kingswood Cookery Book', in… Read more about this item

London: Paul Jerrard, 1852. First Edition. Mid-nineteenth century opulence: two elaborate Victorian plate books with plates of fruit and flowers complimenting verse, fully printed in gilt. Two folios in original cloth with large colour card onlay on front board and gilt floral motif on rear, 24 full-page chromolithographic plates each facing a matching gilt printed poem; cloth mildly browned… Read more about this item

Lisbon, 1952. 'The big-game hunter does not go to the North Pole to track elephants or to Africa to shoot Polar bears. Nature confines certain of her species within restricted geographical limits. Thus, the genuine sardine, Clupea Pilchardus, is only found off the Atlantic shores of Portugal, France and Spain...'. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, 23 pages, near fine.

London: Dean & Son, 1875. The eye must be feasted as well as the palate." A book of instruction on the folding of table napkins illustrated with origami-style directions. Designs previously unimagined include the Double Horn of Plenty, the Prince of Wales's Feather, the Cornucopia... Only a few other known copies. First edition, Venetian red cloth with blind-stamped borders… Read more about this item

W. Egloff, 1943. First Edition. Paul Monnier. Deluxe limited edition, signed by both the author and the illustrator. Published in 1943, "Notre Ami le Vin" is a collaboration between Swiss art critic and writer, Paul Courthion, and the Swiss painter, Paul Monnier (1907 - 1982). One of only one hundred thirty copies printed on vellum cloth paper (paper vélin… Read more about this item

London: Cassell & Co, 1900. Small octavo, red cloth wrappers, in lovely original condition, some wear. With chapters on Australian meat and homemade wine. 'The age in which we live is essentially one of progress, and in no branch of the fine arts is progress more marked than in the art of cookery... The secret of good… Read more about this item

Melbourne: E.W. Cole, 1908. Scarce Melbourne printing of this thorough work on sweet-making by the prominent American cookery author, Sarah T. Rorer. CREAM WALNUTS. Crack English Walnuts very carefully, removing the shells and leaving the kernels as perfect as possible. Put a half-pound of fondant in a small saucepan, stand it in a basin of boiling water,… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock and Company, 1899. New enlarged and revised edition edition with numerous colour plates and just over two thousand pages. More than just a cookery book, Mrs. Beeton's guide is an encyclopedia of useful information on all aspects of domestic life. Chapters of interest include table decoration, treatment and payment of servants, medicine for children and the… Read more about this item

5, Avenue de la République, Paris: Camis, 1896. First Edition. Rare Parisian heating catalogue, displaying many designs in the shape of lighthouses. Includes late nineteenth century French and American stoves. Oblong quarto bound in illustrated paper wrappers, 235 mm x 320 mm, 20 pages, a near fine copy.

London: Ward, Lock and Company, 1915. New enlarged and revised edition edition with numerous colour plates and just over two thousand pages. More than just a cookery book, Mrs. Beeton's guide is an encyclopedia of useful information on all aspects of domestic life. Chapters of interest include table decoration, treatment and payment of servants, medicine for children and the… Read more about this item